What a place!! (and a great canteen)

I only spent a day recording in Studio 2 (where the Beatles recorded) but the amount of iconic music that has been recorded there is rediculus. So I whilst the kit was being sound checked I took advantage of where I was:

Matt Roberts, Abbey Road – Studio 2
This is a picture of me in studio 2.

Why am I smiling? Simple. I’m playing on the piano that LADY MADONNA was recorded on.

After the guide vocals, rhythm and guitar were laid down then we put down the horns – this didn’t take long and before I knew it my part was over…

But it may be a while before I’m back at Abbey Road again so I thought, what the hey?! So my pal Rick and I had a wander into Studio 1 where the music from Star Wars and Indian Jones were recorded.
Matt Roberts, Abbey Road – Studio 1

Rick and I having a high note competition in Studio 1. (I won with a double A, Rick Came a close second with a double G)

Even though I have still yet to hear the final product as the guy who took us there has yet to finished tweeking the mix!!!
(Now nearly 3 Years on!!)

It was still an awsome day.

Well to find out just read on.

As you might have gathered from my site so far I am Matt Roberts – and not that fitness and vitamin supplement bloke who’s tarnishing my name – but the professional musician.

This site has been set up as a live link to my developing career and also as a place to discuss, music (written, recorded and performed), trumpets and anything else that might come up along the way.

I intend to keep this site regularly updated but until I get going here’s a brief taster of where I’ve come form:

A few of my past experiences include performing in front of the queen and 20,000 spectators in Pride Park (Derby), recording at Abbey Road, playing principle trumpet for the CBSO youth (conducted by Sakari Oramo) and playing lead for one of the charts when MYJO won the Dutch National Big Band competition).

I play on a Callichio Ultra Heavy-Weight trumpet, and also own a Jerome Callet Soloist (that I played for many years), a Bach Strad. (which I probably won’t own for much longer), and Couesnon flugelhorn. I play on 2 mouthpieces at the moment (as although I don’t like the idea of this, it is necessary), which are a standard, Bach 1-1/2c and a GR 65ES for my lead stuff. As I play a great number of styles it isn’t appropriate to play on my lead in an orchestra and I don’t have the cutting edge in a big band on the classical Bach.

I’ve spent the last 4 years studying at The Birmingham Conservatoire of Music and now have entered the professional world.

I am currently in Liverpool playing lead for LIPA’s (Liverpool Institution of Performing Arts) Musical Show; My Favourite Year.

So there we have it, a bit on who I am, where I come from and what I’m doing for the opening blog of my site. I hope that any young professionals may find it a useful place to visit and/or discuss some issues with, trumpet players can add their thoughts on particular instruments etc and that anyone else will find something of interest here.

Enjoy…